Inês Cristina Zuber (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (PT) This resolution, which ‘celebrates’ the outcome of the elections in Georgia and the step forward that the elections represents, glosses over a number of facts about the country that ought to have embarrassed those who produced and/or supported it. It obscures the neoliberal measures that have destroyed the guarantees and social rights of workers, and the privatisation of all spheres of the economy. What the majority of the European Parliament wishes to do is to gloss over what is happening in this country (a situation to which the European Union, NATO, the United States and the big finance organisations (International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organisation, etc.) have contributed greatly), support the conclusion of a ‘free trade agreement’ and bring Georgia closer to NATO. For the majority of the EP, any means are acceptable to achieve geostrategic domination of this country, and get their hands on the important resources throughout the region and the energy supply guarantees on which the EU is dependent. The actions of internal and external players in this country and in the Caucasus – a region full of tension – are sustaining great instability that may generate new sources of conflict.